List of museums with major collections of European prints and drawings

This is a list of museums with major collections of European prints and drawings. This list is controversial, in so far as it contains only qualitative analysis of museum holdings. These may or may not reflect actual artistic quality of collections in question.

# British Museum, London, UK
#: 50,000 drawings, 2 million prints [http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/pd/pdhome.html]
# Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
#: 140,500 drawings, 43,000 prints [2005 Annual Report - Tableau récapitulatif de l’état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, pg 185] [http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/lieu_documentation.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1408474395181116&CURRENT_LLV_DEP%3C%3Efolder_id=1408474395181116&FOLDER%3C%3EbrowsePath=1408474395181116&bmUID=1187305485041&bmLocale=en]
# State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
#: 39,000 drawings, 486,000 prints [http://www.khm.at/system2E.html?/staticE/page1946.html]
# Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
#: 110,000 drawings, 500,000 prints [http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/smb/sammlungen/details.php?objectId=8]
# Albertina, Vienna, Austria
#: 50,000 drawings, 1 million prints [http://www.albertina.at/cms/front_content.php?idcatart=257] Excludes 25,000 architectural drawings
# Royal Collection, London, UK
#: 40,000 drawings, 150,000 prints [http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/default.asp?action=article&ID=19] Including 600 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci
#Uffizi, Florence, Italy
#: 120,000 drawings and prints [http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/musei/disegni/]
#Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
#: 9000 drawings and prints [http://www.www.museodelprado.es/index.php?id=50]
# The Metropolitan Museum of Art *, New York, USA
#: 4,000 drawings, 1.5 million prints [http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_lib.asp#stu]
# Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
#: 20,000 drawings, 180,000 prints [http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/pdp/prints/]
# Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
#: 6,000 drawings, 50,000 prints [http://www.moma.org/research/studycenters/index.html#drawstudy] Includes more than 4,000 Old Master drawings and excludes over 10,000 architectural drawings [http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_lib.asp#stu]
# Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
#: 2,000 drawings, 500,000 prints [http://www.vam.ac.uk/about_va/whoswho/collections/dept_word/index.html] Excludes 600,000 architectural drawings, 100,000 design drawings and 10,000 British drawings [http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Reference/Library_888.html] (V&A Collecting Plan Including Acquisition & Disposal Policy, August 2004)
# Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
#: 2,000 drawings, 40,000 prints [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/collections/prints-drawings-and-photographs.php]
# Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
#: 11,500 drawings, 60,000 prints [http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/prints/index.php]
# Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
#: 150,000 drawings and prints [http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/216-436-429-341.html]

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